Attitudes and Perceptions Toward COVID-19 Digital Surveillance: Survey of Young Adults in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

COVID-19 is an international health crisis of particular concern in the United States, which saw surges of infections with the lifting of lockdowns and relaxed social distancing. Young adults have proven to be a critical factor for COVID-19 transmission and are an important target of the efforts to contain the pandemic. Scalable digital public health technologies could be deployed to reduce COVID-19 transmission, but their use depends on the willingness of young adults to participate in surveillance.

Objective

The aim of this study is to determine the attitudes of young adults regarding COVID-19 digital surveillance, including which aspects they would accept and which they would not, as well as to determine factors that may be associated with their willingness to

SUBMITTER: Maytin L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7800905 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature